Thanks to all of you for your good wishes. Chris, I can tell because they watch football and never look at a map when we’re out in the car and get lost. :) No, really, I can only tell during the active mating season when they are “in the mood” from their behavior, vocalizations, and how some species color up. And even those hints are an imperfect guess. I just assign them the label of “boys” because I am a “girl” and I like having whatever you call an all-male harem, albeit an amphibian one.

I’m so happy that I found this blog a month or so ago. I’ve been back in the city the past 6 years where I only can garden in containers and in my imagination (from 140 acres in Mineral Point, WI), but I’ll be moving back to the country -fingers crossed – this year. At least I’ve begun the process. Plans are to build a tiny house surrounded by as much land as I can afford.

Anyway, connecting with you all via this site makes me happier than I have been in a long time, so thanks! I had no idea how much I would miss gardening (and the night sky and silence), and awaytogarden feeds my soul.

Wendy, I have to say from all of us here that your comment is pretty swell. I think we all wish you that piece of land and little house you dream of, and knowing that we in the A Way to Garden community here have helped you weather the days without it is very satisfying. Thanks. Blessings.

I love those frogs…and how cute they are. I really need to make a another frog doll to add to my primitive doll collection. I saw you Margaret on Martha and thought you are so very funny. Love your blog…drop my and see me…Rhonda

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or
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—Rachel Carson

Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.